Month: September 2005
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Laws of our land Part IV: Racism & Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act
In between having to work, I thought idly about why the prosecutors chose to charge the two bloggers/forummers under the Sedition Act. One of the first thoughts that came to mind was ‘what about the Religious Harmony Act’? (The other thought was, ‘wah lao, now damn crowded, better wait until 2pm to have lunch). At…
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TODAY: What’s ‘sedition?’ debate goes online
Excerpt: Bloggers react to news of charge against 2 for ‘racist rants’ TWO bloggers were charged on Monday under the Sedition Act for allegedly racist comments made on an online forum and on a website. Naturally, this has sent ripples through the blogging community. Read more at TODAYonline. (PDF version here). Technorati Tags: blog, sedition,…
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Laws of our land Part III(a): Matters sub-judice
The New Paper: Simply electric! Lordy, this matter has consumed me. But before I go further, there’s one thing that I have to be mindful of when discussing the case. Channelnews Asia called the other night to tell me that the names of the offending websites had been taken down from their news article. I…
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Not slashdotted lah!
Welcome Slashdot readers! Or not. I had doubts whether it was the Slashdot effect that made miyagi.sg inaccessible. My URL wasn’t even on the main article! It was in the comments! Die lah, like that! Nabeh! I link back to you ah! Slashdot me? So, good thing Wannabe Lawyer told me that it was a…
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Bloggers, toilets and recycled water
There’ll be more said today about this. But at least, over at Channelnews Asia, the newscasts on the hour every hour last night were fun(ny) to watch. First, I saw myself speak for 2 seconds. (With the news being repeat broadcast 4 times, that’s 8 whole seconds of air time!) Then I saw the news…